John 10:10 KJV
Recently, defectors from North Korea have reported that certain citizens there will be prosecuted by the law for not outwardly wailing and crying enough over the death of their leader, Kim Jong IL. Some of these citizens could die in labor camps simply because they did not publicly wail enough to suit their communist masters. This means that it is quite possible that a citizen who hated the leader in his heart but put on a great show of grief could escape prosecution, whereas a citizen who truly loved his leader but did not show much sorrow could die in prison because he did not shed enough tears. It seems that how one feels inside is unimportant to the communist masters, only how one acts. To them, it is a crime to be a bad actor.
No event has ever symbolized the destructive effects of the theory of evolution and the materialistic philosophy on which it is based better than these prosecutions. The message of these prosecutions to the people could not be more clear. You the people have no inner mind, no soul, and no spirit. You are empty inside. All that matters is your behavior.
Behavioral psychology is also based on the materialistic philosophy. Behaviorism teaches that no human has an inner life. All that is human is expressed only in behavior. The communists, who base their political philosophy on materialism and the theory of evolution, have taken behavioral psychology to mean that the citizens of the state will be content if they are simply forced to behave in certain ways.
Thus, the effects of the materialistic systems of science, psychology, and government would attempt to produce an absolute emptiness of soul and spirit and of the body too since an empty body is fairly close to being nonhuman. This condition illustrates the fact that humans are subject to many false systems in the world that, in the end, only produce an absolute nothingness.
All that we humans can know, we learn from experience. If one experiences God, then one will learn that he or she has an inner mind and soul, and that his or her spirit can be reconnected to God. Sin, which is a false system that produces an inner emptiness, has disconnected each man's spirit from the Spirit of God.
Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth from heaven to restore mankind to a relationship with God; to reconnect each believer's lost spirit and soul to the Spirit of God. Jesus accomplished this task by dying on the cross in man's place in order to take away man's sin. Jesus took the emptiness of sin on Himself, sacrificing Himself in man's place and suffering sins' effects for the salvation of mankind. He then rose from the dead to prove that He had gained the victory over sin, death and Satan.
When a person hears or reads the good news that Jesus has already done all that is needed for his or her salvation, then the Holy Spirit will visit that person to tell him or her that their sin will destroy them and that only Jesus can save that person. If that person listens closely to the Holy Spirit, then he or she will become convicted that he or she is a lost sinner who needs to be saved by Jesus. If that person then puts away his or her pride and humbles himself or herself to God and repents of his or her sins and believes in his or her heart that Jesus has already done all of the work that will save them, then that person will experience God. Jesus called this experience being "born again." The person who experiences God will absolutely know that his or her spirit has been reconnected to God. This person will know that his or her sins have been washed away by the blood of Jesus, and that God has forgiven him or her, and that God has reconciled that person to Himself. That person will also discover the absolute joy of knowing that he or she now possesses an inner new spirit that has been re-created by God. He or she will know all this because the Holy Spirit will be inside of them. Read John 3 John 16:7-11 Romans 3:23 Romans 10:8-10 II Corinthians 5:21 Ephesians 4:22-24 I John 4:13 KJV
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